“This year’s finalists found creative but financially feasible ways of building off the area’s strengths while attending to the concerns of flood resilience and healthy living,” said Jury Chairman Bart Harvey, board member of Fannie Mae in Washington, D.C. Harvey and the jury also noted the finalists’ meticulous market research in designing their proposals, along with a solid understanding of what type of development would appeal to Nashville culture.

While based on a hypothetical situation, the 2014 Hines competition addresses the city’s desire to redevelop the broader Sulphur Dell area so that it attracts investment and generates value for individual property owners, city residents, and the greater region. In the 2007 Downtown Community Plan, the Sulphur Dell downtown neighborhood was identified as a location envisioned as a mixed-use area that will include residential, office and commercial use.

The development schemes from the finalist teams:

• Georgia Institute of Technology: “Uptown Nashville” proposed rebuilding the current district identity to create a new and improved Sulphur Dell District. With the stadium development and other existing and proposed amenities acting as a catalyst, Uptown Nashville would leverage existing and future amenities to foster the creation of a healthy, diverse, and profitable community.

• Harvard University: The “Sulphur Dell Market District,” a healthy lifestyle community that would catalyze the revitalization of the city of Nashville and is prototypical of resilient urbanism for cities of a similar size. The proposal was based on a landscape framework of layered strategies of ecology, mobility and food, along with creating the conditions for a diverse and resilient urban district that would continue to change and mature over time.

• University of Texas at Austin: “Greenheart Village,” which established a new model of urban living, initiating the rebranding of Nashville as an active, healthy, and engaged community. Greenheart Village would utilize adaptive infrastructure to respond to environmental, social, and economic changes, fostering an environment that encourages adaptation as people engage their local surroundings and a changing world.

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